The program creates a hands-on learning experience combining metric education with the United States’ preferred imperial ...

At first, measurements were based on observable ... However, they also learn key elements of the metric system. Since the United States accepts an informal joint Metric-Imperial use, it's ...

The US hasn't fully adopted the metric system but "Unstoppable" author Bill Nye says some of the measurement is "creeping in." Here is his theory on why we haven't made the switch. Produced by ...

It has been mandated as the preferred system of measurement in the United States since the Metric Conversion Act was passed by congress in 1975. This was further enhanced by an Executive Order in 1991 ...

The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of Sciences and its successor, the Institute of France, to develop entirely new units to measure ... but a ...

Principal Barnard gives a very lucid account of the origin and nature of the metric system, narrating the recent progress of meteorological reform, and answering with what appears to us ...

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

At the time, the burgeoning United States was gradually piecing together its own system of measurement, but when word of the ...

The metric system was introduced to standardise weights ... Students could work in groups to measure a range of objects using these methods. Each group should measure the same objects and compare ...

If you are one of the estimated 125,000 US citizens who now call Costa Rica home, welcome to the world of metric. Get ready to adjust to measurements in the clean and logical metric system. A few ...

In 1866, the Congress and President approved legislation making the metric system legal but not mandatory in the United States. New metric standards were prepared for the states. Educators developed ...